Just after 7pm on February 26th, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space from its launch spot at Cape Canaveral.

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...

As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...

"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...

A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.

Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector company to travel to deep space or beyond the moon.

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

The mission is to become the first commercially built spacecraft to go beyond the Moon in the first steps towards asteroid ...

But fear, Gialich emphasized, is an element of the job that he believes AstroForge should embrace as the company prepares to launch its robotic spacecraft, Odin, on an asteroid flyby mission that ...